First Minister Michelle O’Neill has backed the Irish president’s decision to highlight the conflict in Gaza during a Holocaust memorial event. But Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has said the Irish head of state’s comments were “absolutely wrong”.

Storm Éowyn, a tempest of remarkable ferocity, has swept across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, leaving a trail of disruption and prompting the issuance of unprecedented red weather warnings across both regions.

Ireland has been hit with record wind gusts of 114 miles (183 kilometers) an hour as a winter storm batters the country and northern parts of the U.K. Schools have been closed, trains halted and hundreds of flights canceled in the Republic of Ireland,

An extra 52 engineers have arrived to help NIE teams in Northern Ireland and ESB teams in the Irish Republic. First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly said ...

Both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland are under the top-level red weather warnings for wind from early on Friday.

Northern Ireland is in “the eye of the storm ... stay safe and stay off the roads please.” First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly have urged ...

Michelle O'Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly have agreed to discuss Northern Ireland's "drug epidemic" with a campaigning mum who lost her daughter in 2023. Derry mum Pauline Duddy has been campaigning for tougher sentencing for drug dealers since the death ...

“We have been working closely with the Met Ofiice and other agencies to keep updated on the progress of the storm,” Caron Malone, head of transmission strategy at NIE Networks, told BBC Radio Ulster’s Talkback programme.

First Minister Michelle O’Neill and deputy First Minister ... are helping to restore electricity in Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic following the destruction caused by Storm Eowyn.

Emma Little-Pengelly said the Republic’s president was ‘absolutely wrong’ to raise the issues at the annual Holocaust memorial event.

Further support has been promised from London as work continues to repair damage caused across Northern Ireland by Storm Eowyn. On Sunday evening, more than 75,000 people remained without power and work continued to clear fallen trees from roads.

More than 100,000 remain without power in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of Storm Eowyn. Additional engineers have been brought to the region from Great Britain to help NIE Networks with the task of restoring power.